When filing was the future: four stages of classification at Paul Otlet’s Mundaneum




* Professor Richard Yeo has observed that real encyclopaedias were very much a part of Borges’s life. In an autobiographical essay, the author remembers the steel engravings in his father’s Britannica, and how, after winning a literary prize in 1929, he bought his own second-hand copy of the eleventh edition (Book History, 2007, vol. 10, Johns Hopkins University Press.)

* A publication called The Popular Encyclopaedia did exist, but it was a Scottish rather than American venture, a seven-volume set printed in Glasgow in 1841. And there was also the Newnes Popular Encyclopaedia published in London in the early 1960s in thirty-eight three-shilling parts. Neither was a model for Updike; rather, his particular Popular was a sort of compendium of the World Book, Grolier, Americana and Compton’s.

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